New Tools Support SugarCRM Developers, Partners and Customers in
Building Enhancements and Customizations

PORTLAND, Ore. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — July 21, 2010 —
OSCON 2010 CONFERENCE—
SugarCRM,
the world’s leading provider of open source customer relationship
management (CRM) software, today announced it will release several
functional and performance testing tools under open source licenses for
use with web-enabled applications, including all versions of
SugarCRM’s
award winning applications. The announcement made today at the
O’Reilly
Open Source Conference (OSCON), better enables SugarCRM developers,
partners and customers to create custom enhancements and build solutions
on SugarCRM’s products.

“We empower our partners and customers to control their own destiny
through an open development process,” said SugarCRM Chief Executive
Officer Larry Augustin. “Earlier this year we opened up access to our
source code repository. This is the next step in opening up more of our
development process. By making our testing tools available, we are
helping our partners and customers to assure that the development they
do meets the highest standards for quality, stability and performance.”

In addition to the announcement, SugarCRM leaders will also be taking
part in two sessions during the OSCON event. SugarCRM Chief Marketing
Officer and Executive Vice President of Corporate Development Nick
Halsey will take part in a panel discussion on Thursday at 4:30 p.m.
titled “
Customer
Driven, Vendor Supported Interoperability,” which will include
executives from Novell and Microsoft on the panel. SugarCRM Engineer
John Mertic will be presenting on the topic of “
Developing
Easily Deployable PHP Applications” on Thursday at 5:20 p.m.

The new testing tools build upon SugarCRM’s announcement earlier this
year that it has created a
public
source code tree for Sugar developers. Now, partners and developers
have access not just to a public source code tree, but also powerful
testing tools to develop and insure top performance of their custom code.

The new open source projects include:

SODA – an XML-based testing framework leveraging
Watir.
Watir is an open source Ruby library for automating web browser
interactions. SODA simplifies the process of creating browser test
automation, allowing non-programmers to successfully develop and execute
in-depth test suites against web based applications. SODA will be
released under the BSD license.

SodaMachine – a graphical user interface (GUI) tool for creating,
editing and debugging SODA tests. SodaMachine will be available
initially for Windows and Linux. Mac OS support is under development.
SodaMachine will be released under the BSD license.

MeterMaid – a lightweight XML language that simplifies the
process of writing
Apache
JMeter tests for the HTTP protocol. Apache JMeter is an open-source
Java application that allows for testing web applications under high
load. MeterMaid will be released under the Apache License v2.0.

SugarMMM (MeterMaid Maker) – a utility for automatically
generating MeterMaid XML for load testing against a given SugarCRM
instance. This includes the ability to generate load testing scripts for
custom modules. SugarMMM will be released under the Apache License v2.0.

TidBit – a data generator for SugarCRM that is capable of
generating massive amounts of data in a SugarCRM instance for use in
scalability and performance testing. TidBit will be issued under the
AGPL license v3.

“We are excited to leverage these powerful new open source testing tools
for SugarCRM,” said Doug Guilbeau, managing director at Levementum, a
SugarCRM Gold Partner. “These testing tools are yet another weapon in
the arsenal that SugarCRM provides partners like Levementum to build and
manage differentiated value-added solutions to our customers.”

SugarCRM makes CRM Simple. As the world’s leading provider of open
source customer relationship management (CRM) software, SugarCRM
applications have been downloaded more than seven million times and
currently serve over 600,000 end users in 80 languages. Over 6,000
customers have chosen SugarCRM’s On-Site and Cloud Computing services
over proprietary alternatives. SugarCRM has been recognized for its
customer success and product innovation by
CRM
Magazine,
InfoWorld,
Customer
Interaction Solutions and
Intelligent
Enterprise.